In 1968, she was cast as Karen Cooper, the daughter of the bickering couple, Helen, and Harry Cooper in Night of the Living Dead. She was depicted as mostly unconscious and only spoke two words of dialogue ("I hurt"). Kyra is the daughter of Karl Hardman, an investor and actor in the film, was selected to play Karen Cooper because of the film's tight budget. In the film, Karen was bitten by a ghoul. Her character later dies and reanimates, feasting on her dead father's arm and bludgeoning her mother to death with a cement trowel.
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“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
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The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,
That life, a very rebel to my will,
May hang no longer on me. Throw my heart
Against the flint and hardness of my fault,
Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder
And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,
Nobler than my revolt is infamous,
Forgive me in thine own particular,
But let the world rank me in register
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Your glorious sepulcher shall be.
There wants no marble for a tombe,
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